With four 007 films under her belt, makeup artist Naomi Donne has no doubt gotten up close and personal with more Bond girls than Daniel Craig himself. For Skyfall (opens today), Donne created the film's beauty looks, which range from Bérénice Marlohe's smoky, dragon-inspired "armor" to Naomie Harris' working-woman glow.

Speaking from the Washington, D.C. set of Philomena, which stars that other Bond babe, Dame Judi Dench, Donne chatted with ELLE.com about her inspirations for the film's makeup, Dench's love for beauty products, and how women can rock Sévérine's sultry look for their next holiday party.

ELLE: Sévérine [Bérénice Marlohe] has a very sultry, Asian-influenced look in the film. Talk us through it.

Naomi Donne: She's incredibly beautiful, and she's been used by men all her life. She uses her makeup as a sort of armor to present a certain face to the world, and she uses her beauty wherever she can to survive. So she has very dramatic makeup that was partly inspired by her surroundings. I often shy away from doing strong makeup, because I feel it's distracting or somehow stops you from seeing what someone is trying to convey. But in this case, it's a part of her character. And it [creates] a huge comparison: when you see her without her makeup, she becomes incredibly vulnerable without it.

ELLE: What about those nails?

ND: She had a sort of dragon inspiration. That nail color she's wearing was actually designed by OPI for the film. They did a Bond collection. And I knew her nails were going to be very heavily featured in the film, because you had to see her wrist in that scene with Daniel at the bar. I wanted to do these long, very 1950s nails, so that she would have the feeling of a dragon about her. It was inspired by the dragon in the casino scene. We designed the "Skyfall" nail color that OPI did, and we painted the backs of her nails gold.

ELLE: How can women try the look for themselves, say for a holiday party?

ND: If you're doing that smoky, almond-eye look, then you really have to blend the shadow out to the corners so that it becomes quite pointy at the sides. I did dark lips on her in the film, but for some scenes I used a lip gloss by Chantecaille called Crystalline. The Chantecaille lip glosses are very wet-looking and stay on really well. I also used a Chantecaille base and a glittery black NARS eye shadow.

ND: We used tons of skincare to prep her skin. I used a lot of Crème de la Mer products, such as a Crème de le Mer base. [She wore a] Chantecaille lip color and a Chantecaille eye shadow that's creamy and dark gray, almost black. I blended it to her brow bone, but it didn't read as a black eye—it was just about definition. The thing with Judi is, even though she's more mature, you have to ignore that with her because she's so beautiful. I didn't really consider her age with her makeup at all. I treated her as a young woman, because she can take it.

ELLE: You also designed the makeup look for Naomie Harris, who, without giving anything away, plays Bond's fellow agent.

ND: She has great skin. We wanted to make her up, but we also wanted to make it look real, in the sense that she's working out in the field. It would have looked wrong if she'd been heavily made up. It would have looked silly. So we just did her very light, initially, and then we made it more glam for the casino scene. She's a working woman who wants to look good, but it needs to be functional at the same time. Like all of us!